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CAHSEE ELA 4.1 Expository Writing. How are the events organized?

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00:03

Here's a question to shmoop over...

00:05

OK, we'll assume you've read the question...but we'll splash it up on the screen for a few seconds in case you want to hit

00:10

pause and review...

00:23

How are the events organized?

00:26

Here are the potential answers:

00:32

So... what is this question asking?

00:34

How are the listed events... organized? We can glance at our list first and see if

00:39

anything pops out at us.

00:43

Not alphabetical...

00:47

Not numbered...

00:49

...Nope, no immediate help.

00:50

We're dealing with a lot of content here... so let's not fall into the trap of reading

00:54

every single word.

00:57

There's a lot of unnecessary fluff here, specifically designed to slow us down and

01:02

throw us off track.

01:06

A quick scan should be enough to give us the gist... time is of the essence...

01:11

The only other thing we can do is take each option at a time, and see if it pans out.

01:17

By date? If you can see dates here, good on you. You must be wearing your super-secret,

01:22

x-ray decoder glasses.

01:25

By time? Same deal.

01:28

By type of event? Seems the foodie events would be lumped together if that were the case...

01:34

...but instead, they're bookending the other events...

01:37

Nope... seems like a random, jumbled mess to us. No rhyme or reason whatsoever.

01:41

The answer is D, as in...

01:43

"Denizen of the dark"...

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